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The CIA Is Shuttering a Secretive Climate Research Program
2015-05-21 21:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: On Wednesday, when President Barack Obama spoke at the US Coast Guard Academy`s commencement ceremony, he called climate change "an immediate risk to our national security." In recent months, the Obama administration has repeatedly highlighted the international threats posed by global warming and has emphasized the need for the country`s national security agencies to study and confront the issue. So some national security experts were surprised to learn that an important component of that effort...
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Chaos in candy land: How Tootsie Rolla s secretive empire began to melt
2015-03-16 23:46:51| Food - Topix.net
It started with the candy, a chocolatey, chewy, toffeelike morsel styled after the pet name of the inventor's daughter: Tootsie Roll. But nearly 119 years after America's first bite, the future of one of the world's most iconic candymakers suddenly looks cloudier than ever.
Amazon buys secretive chip maker Annapurna Labs for $350 million
2015-01-23 13:32:24| Extremetech
Amazon just paid several hundred million for Annapurna Labs, but no one knows for sure what it does.
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Secretive, unblockable Verizon perma-cookies kick up privacy concerns
2014-10-29 01:01:59| Wireless - Topix.net
Verizon Wireless has kicked up something of a privacy scandal in recent days over how it tampers with user's web traffic sent via the company's wireless network. Hoping to cash in on lucrative advertising dollars from mobile devices, Verizon inserts a unique string of letters and numbers into individual users' HTTP requests that can be used to identify a specific device.
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Barnidge: Nothing secretive about Richmond political attack campaign
2014-10-26 14:10:04| Energy - Topix.net
Election Day is more than a week away, but my vote is already cast for this year's Most Outlandish Campaign Tactics employed through billboards, fliers and websites. We proudly present the Poison Pen Plaque -- emblematic of relentlessly venomous attacks -- to Moving Forward, the alter ego of Chevron Oil that was spawned to foil the Richmond City Council bids of Jovanka Beckles, Eduardo Martinez and Gayle McLaughlin.
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